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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Disney
EAN: 0786936710236
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 05, 2006
Running Time: 169 minutes
Sales Rank: 12927
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 10, 1953
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Disney's acclaimed groundbreaking nature series captures the wonder of animals and nature. These award-winning stories fully restored to their original beauty offer previously unseen looks into the magical world of our animal friends.Episode List:Living DesertVanishing PrairieSeal IslandSystem Requirements:Run Time: 298 minFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY Rating: UNRATED UPC: 786936710236 Manufacturer No: 05111500
Amazon.com:
There was a time when Walt Disney produced mesmerizing nature films for family audiences. Walt Disney Legacy Collection: True Life Adventures, Vol. 2 reaches deep into the studio's vaults to pull together a selection of those remarkable little movies, a television staple for baby boomers who watched Disney's variously-titled series in the late 1950s and '60s.
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| Basically, teams of roving cinematographers and other technicians were sent into the field, working under the general guidance of a well-researched script, a director, production group, etc. Ingenious editing, creative uses of music, and even touches of animation resulted in marvelous pieces such as the ones in this collection. Among the six titles here are 'Living Desert,' set in the American southwest; 'Vanishing Prairie,' an overview of what were once endless grasslands between the mountainous west and the full forests east of the Mississippi; and 'Seal Island,' shot on a remote Alaskan island. Nature programs are, of course, plentiful on contemporary television. But the Disney shows were unique at the time for applying high cinematic standards (the Technicolor on 'Islands of the Sea,' set in the Galapagos, is something to see) to the task of filming lizards, road runners, sandstorms, and exotic flowers. These programs are also tailor-made for young audiences. The more harrowing sequences of predators stalking their lunch, say, or seal pups getting separated from their mothers aren't censored, but they are softened in the editor's room and via anthropomorphic narration. True Life Adventures stands up today as good family viewing, though they are also fodder for nostalgia for viewers of a certain age. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Great Disney Program- The Living Desert
The program is excellent. Any nature lover or young person should really enjoy this one.
Rating: - Roy does it again!
Great to see this pressious work from Walt Disney again.
Presented by Roy Disney proof to have great teast!
Movies maid in the fifty's have not lost there charme and quality.
a Great achievement to bring back this artwork and fully restaurated.
I recommanded all four volumes!
I hope that the Disney compagny make an second release on Blu Ray.
For the mean time:
Roy does it again!
Rating:  - entertainment and education
I bought this as a gift for my mom, who has been talking about the great educational programs Disney used to have, and how well she remembers 'The Living Desert.' We sat down to watch it together, and while the narration is clearly from a different time, the images hold up. With all the emphasis today on the environment and the ways in which man encroaches on animals' habitats, it's particularly relevant and fascinating to watch. I'd recommend it for adult and children alike.
Rating: - True Life Adventures
This is excellent. The color and sharpness and the accuracy of material covered are very well done. It's fun to watch.
Rating: - The Living Dessert
I remember seeing this series when I was a child and it impressed me then and it should be a great tool for teaching in grammer schools today.
It is true to life today as long as we have Desserts, but of course only Disney can tell a wonderful story.
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